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Podcast: The Free Zone w/ Freeman Fly
Episode: Digital Clones – Mary Sean Young
Description: Actors are already selling digital clones of themselves. Digital clones could contribute to one of the largest Hollywood labor strikes in decades. Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the primary union representing actors and other performers, asked its 160,000 members to vote on whether they are authorized to strike if studios and streaming companies waver on their contract demands.
Among other nonnegotiables, the union is determined to make it clear how much performers should get paid and when they must be consulted for studios to use A.I.–generated simulations of their voice or likeness. The Writers Guild of America is already on strike (an...